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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 57, Issue 28, Pages 4135-4147Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00603
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1608146]
- National Institutes of Health [GM114653A]
- Wenner-Gren Foundations
- Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse
- Richard Dahlboms Stiftelse
- Stiftelsen Olle Engkvist Byggmastare
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [1518265] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The construction of more stable proteins is important in biomolecular engineering, particularly in the design of biologics-based therapeutics. We show here that replacing the tyrosine at position 18 (Y18) of T4 lysozyme with the unnatural amino acid m-chlorotyrosine (Y-mCl) increases both the thermal stability (increasing the melting temperature by similar to 1 degrees C and the melting enthalpy by 3 kcal/mol) and the enzymatic activity at elevated temperatures (15% higher than that of the parent enzyme at 40 degrees C) of this classic enzyme. The chlorine of Y-mCl forms a halogen bond (XB) to the carbonyl oxygen of the peptide bond at glycine 28 (G28) in a tight loop near the active site. In this case, the XB potential of the typically weak XB donor Cl is shown from quantum chemical calculations to be significantly enhanced by polarization via an intramolecular hydrogen bond (HB) from the adjacent hydroxyl substituent of the tyrosyl side chain, resulting in a distinctive synergistic HB-enhanced XB (or HeX-B for short) interaction. The larger halogens (bromine and iodine) are not well accommodated within this same loop and, consequently, do not exhibit the effects on protein stability or function associated with the HeX-B interaction. Thus, we have for the first time demonstrated that an XB can be engineered to stabilize and increase the activity of an enzyme, with the increased stabilizing potential of the HeX-B further extending the application of halogenated amino acids in the design of more stable protein therapeutics.
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